Published on 13 Jun 2023 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance
By buying an index fund, you can roughly match the market return with ease. But if you pick the right individual stocks, you could make more than that. For example, Beiersdorf Aktiengesellschaft (ETR:BEI) shareholders have seen the share price rise 23% over three years, well in excess of the market return (3.1%, not including dividends).
With that in mind, it's worth seeing if the company's underlying fundamentals have been the driver of long term performance, or if there are some discrepancies.
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